Campus foods with high demand

By Reuben Wanyama

Surviving through the semester could be one of the toughest times for a student more so, when any rumors concerning HELB are not forthcoming because the application was just done the other week and it would take not less than 3 months for Ringera to respond. This time of the semester, you pass by your favorite sukuma wiki spot only to be told ‘customer your late come early tomorrow’.

You come the next day thirty minutes earlier and the same answer resurfaces. You ask yourself what’s happening .Why does vegetables deplete so fast of late? And the answer is ‘demand is high’. Comrades turn into being herbivorous then you realize heaven has broken lose. During that period, the following foodstuffs are like gold, everyone hunts for them and the demand curve shoots high. Vegetables such as sukuma wiki, cabbage and spinach are rare to find in the stalls.

Comrades throng at these vegetable outlets and book everything .Parents also having hard time balancing between sending you money and paying school fees. In every ten students, seven could be adding vitamins with vegetables to a point where the indigenous types resurface. Corridors are smelling omena it’s like everyone is striking by cooking them. Some call home and make their order as some depend on the little amount supplied by the locals .Even those who swore not to eat them move up and down seeking cooking tutorials .everyone wishes to ask the academics director when HELB is coming.

Eggs, as much as rumors have it that they causes low libido, people still go for them without any second thought. Most people would serve it with vegetables and ugali and at that time of the semester it’s one of the best meals. Those cheeky and cunning ladies who claim they never take dagaa because they fear their so called pseudo socialite reputation will get ruined stock them you would think they are planning to start an egg deport.
Potatoes; this staple food for most families from central Kenya doesn’t miss customers, it’s preferred because you easily get full if you want to take an ugali break. You serve it with rice and call it a meal. Prices shoot and every potato lover complain all the way from the market to the room. Business explains it all the relationship between demand, prices and quantity. Some ladies would even make their own French fries to quench their insatiable appetite for chips.

Nodules; lazy ladies love nodules because they are easy to prepare and are cheap. They go from as low as twenty shillings served with rice and they call it a meal. Most of my male friends say they would rather go hungry than take nodules. “If your lady makes you nodules more so for supper, they fail the wife material test” so they say. The cycle goes on and on till sponsors or parents earn salaries, loans mature thanks to M-shwari, KCB M-pesa And HELB.